"At your command, my Queen. Glory to Arthan!" The Golden Griffon opened the scales of its armor, allowing the army to leave in force from multiple points without offering an easy target.
At the same time, it drained the surrounding world energy, making the gravity arrays falter and reducing the power of elemental magic to one-tenth of its effectiveness. The army mages left their arrays behind but promptly retreated behind their Awakened colleagues.
The lost academy was bent, but not broken. The damage had started to repair the moment after it was dealt and with the Divine Beasts incoming, even the Awakened had to switch to a defensive position.
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Nandi, Fyrwal, and Solus, however, had come early to the battlefield and gained control of the world energy. They manipulated its flow, trying to negate Hystar's influence and fighting him for dominance.
"Let's see if you've learned your lesson!" Hystar said as golden tendrils moved out of the academy and toward Bytra.
"They sure did, sweet child!" Apep the Apophis Chaos Warped in front of the Unwavering Loyalty array.
There was no life force that could be manipulated, his body was comprised solely of Chaos and his black core was plagued by an insatiable hunger. It devoured the golden tendrils, using them as straws to suck at the nectar held by the academy's power core.
"Damn undead!" The Headmaster tried and failed to retract the energy. The only way he found to stop the bleeding was to turn off the array entirely.
"Give it back!" The Apophis unleashed a volley of Howling Void spells, each the size of a train car.
Between their speed and the academy being on all fours, Hystar took the full brunt of the damage and the shockwaves reached even the inner chambers where the students were kept.
"Hey, fucker, pick on someone your own size!" Xoola the Fenrir used Doom Tide to completely drain the world energy and make the black spears fade.
She charged at Apep with her body shining with golden light from her Mana Body bloodline ability and black from the mass of darkness she had infused herself with.
Her speed caught the Mogar's Serpent by surprise and his Chaos Blink failed as well. Xoola rammed at him, bringing the Apophis away without suffering a scratch from the prolonged contact.
Mana Body made her impervious and the darkness countered the Chaos while also consuming Apep's energy reserves.
"Nice trick. I've got no Spirit Magic and with darkness magic sealed, I'm a sitting duck." He nodded. "Or am I?"
His limbs grew in size and length, turning into dozen meters-long spears, swords, spikes, and anything he needed the moment Xoola switched from ranged to close-quarters combat.
Then, she and other Divine Beasts released their own Doom Tide, filling the air with world energy again. Hystar exploited that moment to suck the world energy in and unleash a volley of Tower Tier spells against anyone who had come too close for comfort.
"Things are still a mess." Now that Thrud had regained her cool, she was studying the situation from the Throne Room. "We can still win, but to do that we must break the When All Are One array."
The members of Lith's group could all produce eight Cursed Flames at the same time. They moved as fast as bullets, ignored most protections, and traveled for hundreds of meters before losing cohesion.
Friya's Dimensional Ruler replicated the effects of the Static Field arrays, but much worse. Her allies among the humans and the Awakened could freely use dimensional magic whereas Thrud's soldiers found themselves trapped the moment they got too close.
The Hyperion's Mana Body shielded them all, making them immune even to spells infused with Life Maelstrom unless one would get close enough. Close enough to be squashed by the Titania's fists or array.
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